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It's a Friday, which is a great day to read about how right-wing organization Dallas Justice Now's X/Twitter account has benefitted from various spam-for-hire services.
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AXIOS [Dec 21] 4 big Trump misses already: 1) Thune elected Senate majority leader 2) Gaetz forced to withdraw as Atty Gnl 3) R's defeat of his spending deal 4) R's pass spending deal w/o his increase in debt ceiling. 2nd term Prezs always lose power &…





The Ninth Circuit is hearing its first fair use case since the Supreme Court's Warhol decision. We wrote to make sure they get the law right and continue to protect innovation from copyright overreach. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/eff-…


The governor gets to appoint election board members in North Carolina. Democrats won the office in November; they also won other offices like LG and AG.

The GOP changed the law to give this power to the auditor’s office, a race the GOP won in November.
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UB40 - Food For Thought


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“He’s not gonna get any favors out of us,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett says after Dems prevented a gov’t shutdown. “I am going to make sure that the American people can know the nice things that they can have if they just put the right people in power, & that means putting the Dems back on top” #Velshi
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“He’s not gonna get any favors out of us,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett says after Dems prevented a gov’t shutdown. “I am going to make sure that the American people can know the nice things that they can have if they just put the right people in power, & that means putting the Dems back on top” #Velshi
msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/rep…

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Justin Baldoni: Sexually harassed Blake Lively during the making of an anti-sexual-harassment film. Also Baldoni: Hired a PR firm to destroy Lively's reputation because he was afraid she'd talk. Also Baldoni: "We men have to step up and figure out how we can be better allies."



Hi #ccmusic fans, @wiloma and I are going to do a show on #freeculture. I've already got @lorenzosmusic picked out. Any other favorites releasing under free culture? For those not familiar: freedomdefined.org/Licenses

Not sure how much music we are going to play versus talking, but we've got an hour to fill up, so I am guessing we will play some music.

in reply to Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

I guess the way I read it is that if you used the FAL for software, it would be Free Software but if you used CC BY-SA for software it would NOT be Free Software, but since both licenses are not aimed at software maybe that was good enough for the FAL.

FAL is essentially non-existent in the English-speaking world, so I have never felt the need to dig into it further. I paid more attention to it before 2014, for sure.

in reply to Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

You could start a blog and call it FAL Blog show all the examples of when people FAL 😁


The parents of slain forest defender Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Paez Terán filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against three Georgia law enforcement officers they say are most responsible for the death of their child in January 2023.

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Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa knows first-hand what can happen when gov’t pressure comes to bear against democratic institutions - and how to hold the line. “The chilling effect will push everyone down,” says Ressa. “You have to have a battle plan going in.”
#Velshi
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Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa knows first-hand what can happen when gov’t pressure comes to bear against democratic institutions - and how to hold the line. “The chilling effect will push everyone down,” says Ressa. “You have to have a battle plan going in.”
#Velshi
msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/-yo…